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Do a brother a favour and check my posting history. A couple of weeks ago I assembled a shrine running 2-way sli EVGA 780 ti sc acx. I feel that it is glorious in a manner truly befitting our Lord and wish to share it with as many of my brothers as I can.

I think you're getting disagreement downvotes, but this does seem to be a good idea. However, those who buy relatively high-end cards like a 770 don't exactly have a tight budget, usually. Price really isn't very important to them.

Looking at the specs, Peasantstation 4's GPU portion of the APU really should come close to a 7850 (2 more CUs, but slower clock speeds), but it's obviously not performing that way. Xbrick 1 is pretty much a downclocked 7790.

In a PC, that would be a respectable GPU for an entry-level machine, so it's possible the CPU is holding the GPU back.

I think the PS4 ups the settings until it's only 30 fps to give the appearance of a better performing system, while a 7850 owner would suffer no such bull forced upon them. With decent case airflow and cooler they could probably get a 10% overclock too.

But my 7790 can run a majority of the games out on the market @ 1080p with 60 fps on high. I get around 40-45 fps on Tomb Raider with the hair on though... Too laggy for me too play somehow; and I used to be able to play with 15-20 fps on my old laptop.

Nope. I'm actually quite surprised, but I haven't really had to turn down settings on anything. Sometimes I have to turn down settings like Anisotropic filtering, or Anialiasing, but other than that leave every thing on max. It plays skyrim on Ultra with the HD texture mod.
Here is where I think our opinions differ. I consider getting 30 -50 fps to be completely fine. So you are right, it can't play newer games at 60fps.

Yes. Its just something I have to live with until I can build my next PC. And that'll be some time. I've got $300 set aside for Oculus rift. Then I've also got to wait for DDR4 to be supported by motherboards. And I have to save up the about $1000 (thats my target budget).

yeah but all cards above the HD 7850 produce graphics that are just too good. It kills the immersion. It was actually a tactical decision to include a variation of this card in the consoles rather than using something that might produce exceedingly crisp detail at over 30fps.

That chart seems like Bullshit. The GTX690 and HD7990 are more powerful than the GTX780. Also how the fuck could the GTX670 and GTX680 be more powerful than the GTX690 and HD7990 which are dual GPU cards. Also, the GTX590 cant even beat a GTX480, Really?

So it's not the chart that's bullshit, just the test. It doesn't make the chart any more valid, though. What's the point of having the chart if you can't glean any useful information from it? The scores are meaningless, dual-gpu cards aren't effectively tested, you can't compare the relative performance of two cards.

Overall people need to stop linking this site, not just here but in other pc subreddits like /r/pcgaming or /r/buildapc. If it's a chart you want, here you go. If it's benchmarks you want, look for ones which tell you the FPS you're getting, instead of ones which simply issue you a score of 5000, or some other arbitrary number.

Don't worry, as part of the glorious pc master race, you will be able to play modern games anyway, just by lowering graphic details, while everyone who owns a peasantbox 360 can just put it back in it's box and go buy a new system/controller/etc and line up microsoft and sony's pockets.

And by the day you'll be able to budget a new upgrade, it'll be glorious, and also cheaper.

It's rather silly how "next-gen" has been twisted into some kind of indescribable line-item feature buzzword in the console world where it has existed as abstract in every technology market since the dawn of time. Weapons, cars, phones, on and on, these are all created in generations and the terms simply applies to the next major version. It's not something you can ever have any more than tomorrow can ever be today.

A 7970 ghz edition is exactly the same as a 7970, just with a higher clock. A 7970 overclock to a gigahertz would perform exactly the same as a 7970 ghz edition. Its kind of like the same athlete, one day running at 75% speed, and 90% speed another day

Can confirm on this, had a 5750 for a while, with a mild overclock paired with an AMD Phenom II X4 2.8ghz, was able to play Crysis Warhead on high settings at about...uh....43fps average? Definitely a peppy little card for the price, to be sure.

Actually, those are dedicated graphics cards with upwards of 100W TDP. The chip in the PS4 is an undervolted APU that has to split power and resources equally between the CPU and GPU, so actual performance will be a little bit lower than the 7850.

HSA and Mantle will fix that right up in the upcoming 28nm Kaveri APUs.... too bad, peasants! Both are PC only :(

I would really like it if people would stop using this website as an example, its benchmarks are really inaccurate and the scores are absolutely meaningless in any real-world application. Hell, even as for as synthetic benchmarks go this is a pretty horrid site, only made worse by the fact that its collected from a wide variety of base systems and different components.